Thursday, July 4, 2013

THE UNKNOWN VAN GOGH MUSEUM

Helene Kröller-Müller, German by birth but married to successful Dutch businessman Anton Kröller, amassed a collection of over 11,500 art objects. Her favorite artist was Vincent van Gogh, and she became the owner of more van Gogh paintings than anyone other than the van Gogh family itself, nearly 100 paintings and 175 drawings.

About an hour's train ride from Amsterdam is another Van Gogh museum that many travelers to the Netherlands miss. The Kröller-Müller Museum, located in the town of Otterlo, Netherlands in the middle of the Hoge Veluwe National Park, is home to some of van Gogh's most famous and beloved masterpieces.  Here are just a few:

Terrace of a Café at Night (Place du Forum)
Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed
L'Arlésienne



Portrait of Joseph Roulin
To read more about this museum, visit the museum website here.  To see more about my visit to the museum, visit my blog post here.

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